Queen’s Park Camera Club

Members of Queen’s Park Camera Club were asked to tour the city during the Radiance event in November and capture their favourite images. All the pictures were submitted to the city council and the three winning amateur photographers invited to an awards ceremony in the City Chambers. Alistair Watson won the overall prize for his dramatic view of Glasgow Cathedral, as well as the award in the cathedral section. Sheila Clark won in the projects section for her image of The Dress and Michael MacLean picked up the people section award for his image of a man and child enjoying the festival. Please click here to read a full story published in Evening Times.

Image (c) Alistair Watson

We had an annual exhibition of prints in the camera club. Images were judged by Simon Allen EFIAP MPAGB. A list of commended, highly commended and winner images will be available on the website soon.

On Thursday 27th March John West will give his slide/talk presentation on the buildings of Glasgow, ‘Above my head’. Highly recommended by some of our members who have seen the show at another venue!

On Thursday 20th March Leo Palmer FRPS FPSA EFIAP APAGB will speak at Queen’s Park Camera Club. Leo has been a member of Hexham and District Photographic Society for over 30 years, originally working with monochrome and colour darkroom printing and now concentrating on digital imaging. His work, largely produced as a result of extensive travelling, has won him his many distinctions and we are pleased that he will bring both prints and digital images to the club during a short Scottish tour.

You can visit Leo’s website at www.leopalmerphotography.co.uk

The selection of 3D pictures taken by Denis Alyshev in Japan, Russia, France, Switzerland and Scotland will be shown in the camera club on Thursday, 13 March 2008. Pictures will be projected on a silver screen in true colours, 3D polarised spectacles will be provided. Show starts at 7:45PM.

The Scottish Photographic Circle Exhibition Prints 2008 will be shown at Queen’s Park CC on Thursday 28th February with a commentary by Douglas Harris. The Circle’s Centenary exhibition (shown at the club last season) is displayed in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall until 24th March.

Michael James who is a member of QPCC has his pictures exhibited in Bar 10, Glasgow. It’s a collaboration with Knautia from Bristol, the Tale of Two Cities (TOTC) 11, is on show for the next couple of weeks. Have a look down there when you can! Tale of Two Cities is a project on Flickr in which people from two different cities create film based double exposures of their respective cities. One agrees to take the initial pictures, on film at half exposure, then rewind the film and send to their partner in the project, to complete the exposures. Neither knows what the other has taken, and the mixing of exposures are random, with frames often going out of sync with each other. And yet the results are often very striking, resulting in a surprising unity of purpose, and displaying the commonality btween different cities and different artists. TOTC #11, which these images come from, was the first Tale of Two Cities project to be filmed in black and white, and a lot of people were wondering how it would turn out, but in fact, it was the best of the projects so far.

 
Tale of Two Cities of Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbandoubleexposed/

On Thursday 24th January we are delighted to welcome to the club Duncan McEwan, a regular and popular speaker at Queen’s Park. He will be showing the third in his series of beautiful slides of Scottish landscapes - ‘Scotland: land of light’.

Duncan has agreed to our choice of this lecture as the first Eric Watt Memorial Lecture. Eric was a very active and well-liked member of Queen’s Park and after his recent death the club was honoured to receive a legacy. It was decided to use this for the provision of speakers.

Pollok Park was gifted by the Maxwell family in 1969 “for the enjoyment of the citizens of Glasgow” and the “enhancement of the beauty of the neighbourhood”. In 2007 Pollok Park was voted Britain’ s Best Park. In the November 2007 Greenspace Scotland Bulletin, the then Manager of the Park, Tony Boyle, is quoted as follows: “What we have here is unbelievable: outdoor activities, a stately home, and the finest art collection in Europe. And the wonderful thing is it is free!”

Glasgow City Council proposes to give a 21 years lease covering the North Wood of Pollok Park (aerial map is here) to Adventure Forest Ltd to develop a “GO APE ” theme park. This development will restrict the use and enjoyment of a large area of the park to ordinary users, walkers etc. The total area of activity / noise spread etc we have described as huge - it is about half of North Wood by Go Ape’s own maps and evidence from other Go Ape sites.

We had a very interesting meeting of the Contemporary Photography Group on 14 Jaunary 2008 in the Clubrooms. The 11 people who attended were treated to a selection of images from Sandy Sharp who, in 2003, widely exhibited his set of pictures featuring the changes in the former site of Ravenscraig Steelworks. The structure of the project, style of photography and the way the exhibition was funded were all discussed widely. We have also decided to attempt to produce a small selection of images for World Pinhole Day which is on April 27, 2008. Feel free to join in! Our next meeting will (hopefully) be in March.

Have a look at the following sites for inspiration:

http://www.pinholeday.org

http://www.pinholephotography.org (Justin Quinnell’s site - Great!)

http://www.pinhole.com

On Thursday 17th January Bob Collins AFIAP will present his prints in Queen’s Park Camera Club, the title of his talk being ‘A Portrait of Crete’. Bob is one of our own members but due to other commitments he is unable to attend our meetings regularly.This is a good opportunity to see some of his excellent work.

These photographs were taken in 1976 as part of a project commissioned by The People’s Palace. Large parts the East End, particularly Calton, were due for major demolition and redevelopment and the aim was to document people and the environment there before much of it disappeared. These images are of a small corner of Denniston and also of some of the work places in the East End. The other photographers were Jim Gillies, Malcolm Hill, Keith Ingham and Roy Smart, all then members of Partick Camera Club. The final portfolio was exhibited in the People’s Palace in 1977.The exhibition is from 14 December 2007 to 12 January 2008, though closed in Christmas week, Thursday to Saturday 3 – 6pm. The exhibition takes place in Keith Ingham: Photographs, 27 Hillfoot Street, Denniston, G31 2LD, Glasgow. Hillfoot Street is off Duke Street, about 300 yards east of the junction with Bellgrove Street. Café Tibo is on the corner. Private view Thursday 13 December 2007 5.30 to 8.30pm. The exhibition is sponsored by Armstrong & Armstrong Ltd. who have also kindly provided the premises for the show.

We had our second Projected Image Competition of the 2007/08 season on Thursday, 6 December 2007. The Judge was Charlie Moore.
The top images in the Beginners section were:

1st Place: Heron by Sara Bannerman
2nd Place: The Old Mill by Alistair Watson
3rd Place: Drummer Boy by Sara Bannerman

The top images in the Open section were:

1st Place: Homeward Bound by Jim MacBrayne
2nd Place: The Boathouses by Jim MacBrayne
3rd Place: Kawasaki by Cameron McMurdo

The Projected Image Group had their first theme challenge tonight and the topic was reflections. It was good to see everyone making their own interpretation. We had a good mix of landscapes and cityscapes as well as some nice abstracts and a self-portrait within the 40 plus submissions. There was no scoring or winners, just friendly comment and critisism! Thanks to everyone for coming along and contributing to the discussions.

The Projected Image Group next meets on Tuesday 27th November and the topic for Theme Challenge that night is “Vehicles”.

Click on images below to see them full size.

Despite what the title says, Shorpy isn’t a 100 year-old website, nor is it restricted to photos taken a century ago. But it is filled with fantastic high-resolution vintage B&W and color scans from the late 1800s and early 1900s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a lad who worked in an Alabama coal mine at the turn of the previous century.

The comments tend to be rather pithy as well, including one in which someone brazenly declared, “The picture is of far higher quality than existed in that era. It’s obviously a fake.” — propagating the sad misconception that the world was but a blurry smear in the years before digital photography.

Please click here to deep into Shorpy’s website.

// from www.retrothing.com

The recent Contemporary Photo Group were rewarded for their attendance by having a look at Iain’s ‘Lanes’ project (again!) and even better, one of the group treated us to some unseen footage. The images in question are part of a public information film and the person providing the DVD (let’s call him/her ‘Q’) provided it under strict confidence, and possible threat of death or even worse. There was a terrific collection of images and the contents of the film provided us with a good few talking points. Hopefully we will have some moving images to view next month and as ever, bring along any non-club type images and let us know how and why they were taken.

We had our first Projected Image Competition of the 2007/08 season on Thursday, 4 October 2007. The Judge was Malcolm Allen, LPRS.

1st Place: Hit Middle Wicket! by Ian McKendrick
2nd Place: My Ball by Kenny Sheilds
3rd equal Place: Ride The Waves by Paul Saunders
3rd equal Place: Two Hippies West End Carnival by Iain Yuill

1st Place: Sunset Surfers by Tom Doherty
2nd equal Place: Loch Carron Washing Line by Geraldine Melone
2nd equal Place: The New Member by Jim MacBrayne
3rd equal Place: Cheverny Reflections by Alistair Knox
3rd equal Place: Final Touch by Rob Cunningham

Tom Murray will be appearing at Park Gallery (Glasgow, Scotland) on Thursday 18th October 2007 between 6-9pm to launch a collection of fabulous Signed Limited Edition Prints featuring the Beatles. Sunday July 28th 1968 was to become one of the most memorable days for photographer Tom Murray. Little did he know that he would be participating in what was the last official publicity and promotional shoot of the Beatles as a group. This day now known worldwide as the ‘Mad Day’ Summer of ‘68. The collection of images covers that historic session and shows what are considered by Beatle’s experts to be the finest collection of colour images of the ‘FabFour’ in 1968. Please click on the image below to read more about the Park Gallery and the exhibition.